Microsoft officials also said they are getting rid of facial analysis capabilities designed to infer emotional states and attributes like gender, age, smile, facial hair, and makeup. There are some facial recognition technologies, such as detecting blur, exposure, glasses, head pose, landmarks, noise, occlusion, and facial bounding that will not require an application. As of June 30, 2023, existing customers won't be able to access facial recognition capabilities if their application has not been approved. Microsoft officials said they believe limiting access will add an additional layer of scrutiny for its facial recognition services that will ally with the company's Responsible AI Standard. Starting today, June 21, new customers will need to apply for access to use facial recognition operations in the Azure Face application programming interface, Computer Vision and Video Indexer, according to a new blog post, and existing customers have a year to apply and get approval for continued access to these services based on their use cases.

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